BUTTER PRICES.

Evening Star, Issue 17483, 14 October 1920, Page 10

BUTTER PRICES.

- ♦ —— (From Oar Parliamentary Reporter.) t i 4, , . „ WELLINGTON, October 14 I have the best authority for saying that the findings of the Butter Committee are 2s 3d for cash and 2s 4d for booking. It transpires that Mr M Combs proposed that the retail price should remain at Is 9d, and divided the committee, with the result that three—all Laborites—voted for this figure and three against, the chairman (Mr Nash) giving his casting vote for upholding the committee In the meantime Mr Massey and other Ministerial members had left the committee room. The Laborites contended that 2d was too much for booking when in the majority of cases the retailers’ customers paids their accounts weekly The Prime* Minister was assured by tho member for Lyttelton that if the retail price were retained at Is 9d there were adequate means available for providing subsidies la roe enoimli to give butter producers full advantage of the British market rates. These facts wall be disclosed during the debate on the report. Messrs M‘Combs and Kellett voiced Labor’s objections to raising tho butter price. . . °